Editing CodeWarrior (section)

==Origin of the name==
During the 1990s, [[Apple Computer]] released a monthly series of developer [[CD-ROM]]s containing resources for programming the Macintosh. These CDs were, in the early days, whimsically titled using punning references to various movies but with a coding twist; for example, "The Hexorcist" (''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]''), "Lord of the Files" (''[[Lord of the Flies (1963 film)|Lord of the Flies]]''), "Gorillas in the Disc" (''[[Gorillas in the Mist]]''), etc.<ref>{{cite web |last= Every |first= David K. |title= Apple Developer CD Codenames: Puns, fun, and satire |publisher= MacKiDo |year= 1999 |url= http://www.mackido.com/CodeNames/DeveloperCDs.html |access-date= 2015-05-28}}</ref>

One of these, volume 9, was titled "Code Warrior", referring to the movie ''[[The Road Warrior]]''. Later Apple dropped the whimsical titling in favor of a more sober "Developer CD series". Coincidentally the Metrowerks founder, Greg Galanos, an Australian, was also inspired by the movie and proposed the CodeWarrior name. Metrowerks subsequently used the name for their new developer product.

CodeWarrior CD packaging was very much in the tradition of the Apple developer CDs, featuring slogans such as "Blood, Sweat, and Code" and "Veni, Vidi, Codi" in prominent lettering. Competing products such as Symantec's [[THINK C]] were more conventionally marketed.